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j jjjjj ROBERT S. HOWARD,) Editor and Publisher. S VOLUME I. Jldoertißemenfe. Notice to Contractors. WILL be let. to the lowest bidder, before the Court House door in Jefferson, on Tuesday, the oth day of September, 18S1, the contract for building the bridge across the Walnut Fork of the Oconee river at the old bridge location near Mad dox's mill, in accordance with the following speci fications : Said bridge to be huiit with one queen post truss span fifty feet and two end spans; length of end spans to suit length of bridge. Tim bers to truss span. 5 sleepers, 8 by 12 or 10 by 12. fifty-four feet long ; two bolsters, G hy 12, 1G feet long, to he placed one-third the length of span apart, the same to extend across bottom of bridge under sleepers, and be supported by main rods running through from top of truss to bolster. (See plans.) Truss timbers, 8 by 10, length to suit one-third length of span; to be even notched at the foot or lower end and well pinned and bolt ed with iron bolts ; truss to be braced with two braces on each side, extending from lower end of bolster to top of truss, of 3 by 4 scantling; truss to be framed 3 feet 3 inches from top edge of sleepers to top of truss ; iron rods for trussing, 11 inch best round iron, with taps and washers. .Said span to extend from arch of trestle in water on south side of river to bank ; on opposite side, trestle in water to be built on crib made of 10 by 12 inch timbers, notched in and well pinned at each corner, extending up to surface of the water ami to be filled up with rock ; length and width of said crib to suit heighth of trestle. Trestle on hank to he let into the ground by digging trench as deep as water will allow and filled in on with rock and dirt. Each end span to extend from trestles under truss span well out to short tres tles, to he let into the ground three feet and filled with rock and dirt; five sleepers to eacli span, 8 hy 12 inches; two outside sleepers to each span, at each end of sleeper to he redded with 1] inch iron rod, extending from mud sills up through sleepers Trestle timbers, mud sills to he 10 by 12, length to suit heighth of trestle ; uprights, 10 hy 12, same length ; cap sills, 10 by 12, iifteen feet long, morticed half through, to fit on tenant on upright, and well pinned; mud sill on crib to he wcil pinned and handed with iron to crib legs, as seen in plans. Hand-rail to be placed on eacli side of end spans; uprights to same to be S feet apart and morticed through iloor and keyed on underside and braced on outside. Flooring, 2by 12, 11 feet long, well spiked down with forty pen ny spikes, two in each end, right and left in inter mediate sleepers. All timbers to be good heart, and if hewn, to be well and smoothly done. Said bridge to be completed in iifty days from time of letting. Bond, with two good securities, in dou ble the amount of the hid, will he required imme diately after the letting, conditioned fora faithful complyance of the contract. The work to be paid for when completed in accordance with the speci fications. Full and complete specifications can be seen at this ollicc. Aug. 5. 11. W. BELL, Ord’y. Jackson Sheriff's Sale. WILL he sold, before the Court House door in Jefferson, on the first Tuesday in Septem ber, 18.il, within the legal hours of sale, to the highest bidder, the following property, to-wit: A tract of land, situated in the 242d District G. M. of said county, containing seventy acres, more or less, adjoining lands of J. E." Arnold, Lee Mor ris, .Robert Morris and others. Levied on as the property of J. 11. Eads a.id S. J. Eads, to’satisfy a ti. fa. issued from the Justice’s Court of the 212d District G. M., in favor of J. It. Crane vs. J. 11. and S. J. Eads. Levy made a* and returned to me by J. C. Williamson. L. C. Notice given the tenant in possession as the law directs. T. A. MeELIIANNON, Sh’ff. / 1 liOl.h! A, Jackson Comity* VT Whereas, C. W. Hood, Executor of Z. S. Hood, deceased, represents to this Court, by his petition duly filed, that he has fully and completely ad ministered said deceased’s estate, and is entitled to a discharge from said administration— This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred itors. to show cause, if any they can, on the first Monday in September, ISSI, at the regular term of the Court of Ordinary of said county, why Let ters of Dismission should not be granted the ap plicant from said trust. Given under my official signature, this May 30. 1881. H. W. BELL, Ord’y. Jackson Comity. Whereas, O. M. Wood, Administrator on the estate of A. M. Loggins, late of said county, de ceased, represents to the Court, hy his petition duly filed, that he has fully administered said es tate, and is entitled to a discharge— This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred itors, to show cause, at the Court of Ordinary of said county, ou the first Monday in October, 18S1, why said applicant should not have Letters of Dis mission from his said trust. Given under my official signature, this June 28, 1881. 11. W. BELL. Ord’y. .lackson €onnty. Whereas, W. P. Cosby, Administrator on the estate of Frances C. Cosby, late of said county, deceased, represents to the Court that he has fully administered said estate, and is therefore entitled to Letters of Dismission— This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred itors, to show cause, at the Court of Ordinary of said county, on the first Monday in October, 1881, why said letters should not be granted the appli cant. Given under my official signature, this June2S, 1881. 11. W. BELL, Only. Q.EOKGIA, County. Whereas, the reviewers, appointed for the pur pose of reviewing the road in said county com mencing on the Athens and Lawrcnceville road, near the residence of Charles Furgerson. thence by the residences of James and Nancy Spencer, John Marlow, C. P. Furgerson. Lewis Anthen and W. Collins, intersecting with the Watkins* vdle and Hog Mountain road at or near the resi dence of the Widow Jones, having marked out and reported that the establishment of said road as one of the public roads of said county will con duce to the convenience of the traveling public, an order will be passed on Monday, the 22d day of August, ISSI, finally granting the estab lishment of said road as one of the public roads cf the county, if no good cause to the contrary be shown. Given under my official signature, this July 20, ISSI. 11. W. BELL, Ord’y. QEGRGIA, Jackson County. Whereas. M. J. Dowdy applies fur Letters of Guardianship of the persons and property of John W. Dowdy and Joseph F. Dowdy, minors of IV. F. Dowdy, deceased— This is to cite all concerned, the next of kin, Ac., to show cause, if any, at the regular term of the Court of Ordinary of said county, on the first Monday in September, 1881, why said Letters should not be granted the applicant. Given under my official signature, this Aug. 3. 1881. 11. W. BELL, Ord’y. QEORGIA, Jackson County. James L. Bailey has applied for exemption of personalty and setting apart and valuation of homestead; and I will pass upon the same at 10 o clock A. M., on the loth day of August, 1881. a' my office in Jefferson. EOIKhSA, Jacksjou County. VJ Whereas, Martha J. Watson, Executrix of the estate of Harriet A. Watson, late of said county, dcc’d, applies for leave to sell the real estate of said deceased— This is to cite all concerned, kindred-and cred itors. to show cause, if any, before the Court of Ordinary of said county, on the Ist Monday in Sep tember, 1881, why said leave should not he grant ed the applicant. Given under my official signature, this Aug. 3, 1881. H. VV. BELL, Ord’y. HOKCaIA, Ja< ksou County. At hereas, T. S. Shanklc and S. S. Smith, Execu tors of the estate of I). AV. Smith, late of said coun ty, deceased, applies for leave’to sell the land be longing to the estate of said deceased— This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred itors, to show cause, if any, at the regular term of the Court of Ordinary of said county, on the first Monday in September, 1881, why said leave should not be granted the applicant. Given under my official signature, this Aug. 3. 1881. ' U. W. BELL, Ord’y. J EORGIA, Jackson County. Whereas, E. J. Sharp, Guardian of his minor children, applies for leave to sell one share of stock m the Georgia Rail Road and Banking Com pany belonging to said minors— This is to cite all concerned, the next of kin, Ac., to show cause, if any, at the regular term of the Court of Ordinary of said county, on the first Monday in September, ISSI. why said leave should not he granted the applicant. Given under my official signature, this Aug. 3, 1881. __ 11. W. BELL, Ord’y. | llOittiilA, Jackson County. Whereas. J. 11. Malcy, Administrator of the estate of Johnson Maley, late of said county, dcc’d, applies for leave to sell the land and real estate of said deceased— This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred itors, to show cause, if any, on the first Monday in September, 1381, at the regular term of the Court of Ordinary of said county, why said leave should not be granted the applicant. Given under mv official signature, this Ang. 3, ISBI. ' 11. W. BELL, Ord’y. (1 EOItGIA, JacliMm Coimiv. J A\ hereas, John A. Booth makes application to me in proper form for Letters of Administration on the estate of Sarah Booth, late of said county, deceased— This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred itors, to show cause, if anjq before the Court of Ordinary of said county, on the Ist Monday in Sep tember, ISSI, why said Letters should not be granted the applicant. Given under my official signature, this Aug. 3, 1881. 11. W. BELL, Ord’y. To Debtors and Creditors. ALL persons having demands against Stephen AY i Ison, late of said county, deceased, are hereby notified and required to present them, properly attested, to the undersigned, within the time prescribed by law. and all persons indebted to said deceased arc hereby required to make im -mediatc payment. Z. W. HOOD. Adm’r, with the will annexed, of Stephen AVilson, dec’d. August o. JDrofcßsionnl' k (Business (Ennis. DENTIST, JunclO-'SI. Gainesville, Ga. JOHN J. MTIiH AT T OKN E Y-A T-L AW, Danielsville, Ga., Will promptly attend to all business entrusted to him. dec 17, ’BO. DSC. N. IS. CMKIt. NICHOLSON, GA., Tenders his professional services to the surround ing country. Rheumatism, Neuralgia and the dis eases of women a specialty. Feb.l3th. 1880. ly HOWAStD THOMPSON, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Gainesville, Ga. Prompt and faithful attention given to all busi ness placed in his hands. WIMIV <’. HOWAltfl>, Attorney anti Counselor at Law, JEFFERSON, GA. Will attend faithfully to all business entrusted to his care. mch4, SIIAIAA A THOMPSON, A T T ORN E Y S- A T -LAW, J EFFERSON, GA, Will practice in Jackson and adjoining counties. MOIIE YET! Notwithstanding the heavy inroads up on our stock, we still keep enough of >-Vuv\Av tv\u\ V' ow.ev\ 33: ry G-oods on hand to supply our customers, and shall con tinue to add to the same as the requirements of the trade demand. WE ARE STILL OFFERING BARGAINS IlsT Staple Dry Goods and G 110 CER IE S. Call and price. ,We will take pleasure in show ing our stock. A. 11. BROCK & CO. Jefferson, Ga . April 23th, 1881. JEFFERSON. JACKSON COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1881. sv.'LWf msc'aiiiAT&x. Goin’ Home To-Day. My business on the jury's done—the quibblin' all is through— I’ve watched the lawyers right and left, and given my verdict true ; I stuck so long unto my chair, I thought I would grow in ; And if I do not know myself, they’ll get me there ag’in ; Hut now the court’s adjourned for good, and I have got iny pay. I'm loose at last, and, thank the Lord, I'm going home to-day. I've somehow felt uneasy like, since the lirst day 1 came down ; It is an awkward game to play the gentleman in town; And this ’ere Sunday suit of mine < n Sunday rightly sets; Hut when ( wear the stuff a week, it somehow galls and frets. I'd rather wear my In mespun rig of pepper, salt, and gwy — I'll have it oil in hall a jilt when I get home to day. The mornin’ that 1 came away we had a little bout; I coolly took my hat and left before the show was out. For what I said was naught whereat she ought to take olfense, And she was always quick at words and ready to commence ; But then she’s first one to give up when she has had her say ; And she will meet me with a kiss when 1 go home to-day. 1 have no doubt my wife looked out, as well as any one— As well as any woman could—to sec that th.ngs was done ; For though Melinda, when I'm there, won’t set her foot outdoors, She's very careful, when I’m gone, to tend to all the chores ; But nothing prospers halLso well when 1 go oil* to stay, And I will put things into shape when I get home to-day. My little boy—l’ll give ’em leave to match him, if they can ; It’s fun to see him strut about, and try to be a man ; The gamest, cheeriest little chap you'll ever want to sec ! And then they laugh, because I think the child resembles me. The little rogue ! he goes for inc like robbers for their prey; He’ll turn my pockets inside out when I get home to-day. My little girl—l can't contrive how it should hap pen thus— That God should pick that sweet bouquet and lling it down to us ! My wife, she says that lian'somc face will some day make a stir ; And then l laugh, because she thinks the child resembles her. She’ll meet me half way down the hill, and kiss me any way ; And light my heart up with her smiles when I go home to-day. If there’s a heaven upon the earth, a fellow knows it when lie's been away from home a week, and then gets home again ; If there's a heaven above the earth, there often. I’ll he bound, Some homesick fellow meets his folks, and hugs ’em all around. But let my creed be right or wrong, or be it as it may, My heaven is just ahead of me—l’m going home to-day. Will Carldon, la “ Farm Ballads .” Guileau’s Crime. Authentic History of Its Inception and Exe cution —Hoiv lie Planned to Kill the President at Church—Other Places Where lie Lay in Wait for Him—Detailed Statement hy District Attorney Corlchill. [From Washington Star , July l l//<_] United States District Attorney Coikhill lias authorized the publication of the follow ing, in order to correct certain false state ments : “The interest felt b}’ the public in the de tails of the assassination and the many stories published justify me in stating that the following is a correct and accurate state ment concerning the points to which refer ence is made : The assassin, Charles Guiteau, came to Washington City on Sunday evening, March 6th, 1881, and stopped at the Ebbitt House, remaining only one day. lie then secured a room in another part of the city, and has boarded and roomed at various places, the full details of which I have. On Wednesday, May 18th, 1881, the assassin determined to murder the President. lie had neither money nor pistol at the time. About the last of May he went into O'Meara’s store, corner of loth and F streets, this city, and examined some pistols, asking for the largest calibre, lie was shown two, similar in cali bre, and only different in the price. On Wednesday, June Bth, he purchased the pis tol which he used, for which he paid $lO, lie having in the meantime borrowed sls of a gentleman in this city, on the plea that lie wanted to pay his hoard bill. On the same evening about 7 o'clock he took the pistol and went to the foot of 17th street and prac ticed firing at a board, firing ten shots. lie then returned to his boarding place and wiped the pistol dry and wrapped it in his coat, and waited his opportunity. Ou Sunday morn ing, June 12th, he was sitting in LaFayette Park and saw the President leave for the Christian Church, on Vermont avenue, and he at once returned to his room, obtained his pistol, put it in his hip pocket and followed the President to church; he entered the church, but found that he could not kill him there without danger of killing someone else, lie noticed that the President sat near a win dow ; after ehurcli lie made an examination of the window’ and found he could reach it without any trouble, and that from this point FOR THE PEOPLE. of Mr. Morton’s late residence, corner Fif teenth and H, for some time, and then, as he was afraid he would attract attention, he went into the alley in the rear of Mr. Mor ton’s residence, examined his pistol and waited. The President and Secretary Blaine came out together, and he followed them over to the gate of the White House, but could get no opportunity to use hi3 weapon. On the morning of Saturdays July 2d, he breakfasted at the Biggs House about G o’clock. lie then walked up into the park and sat tliore for an hour. lie then took a one-horse avenue car and rode to Sixth street, got out and went into tiic depot and loitered around there, had his shoes blacked, engaged a hackman for §2 to take him to the jail, went into the water closet and took his pistol out of his hip pocket and unwrapped the paper from around it, which he had put there for the purpose of preventing the perspiration from the body dampening the powder, examined his pistol, carefully tried the trigger, and then returned and took a scat in the ladies’ waiting room, and, as soon as the President entered, ad vanced behind him and fired two shots. These facts, I think, can be relied on as ac curate, and I give them to the public to con tradict certain false rumors in connection with this most atrocious of atrocious crimes.” he could shoot the President through the head without killing any one else. The following A\ r eduesday he went to the church, examined the location and window and became satisfied he could accomplish his purpose, and lie de termined, therefore, to make the attempt the following Sunday, lie learned from the pa pers that the President would leave the city on Saturday, the Bth of June, for Long Branch ; be therefore determined to meet him at the depot. He left his boarding place about 5 o’clock Saturday morning, June 18, and went down to the river, at the foot of Seventeenth street, and fired five shots to practice his aim and be certain his pistol was in good order. lie then went to the depot, and was in the ladies’ waiting room of the depot, with his pistol read}’, when the Presi dential party entered, lie says Mrs. Gar field looked so weak and frail that lie had not the heart to shoot the President in her pres ence, and as he knew he would have another opportunity lie left the depot. lie had pre viously engaged a carriage to take him to the jail. On Wednesday evening the President and his son, and I think United States Mar shal Ilenry, went out for a ride. The assas sin took his pistol and followed them and watched them for some time in hopes the car riage would stop, but no opportunity was given. On Friday evening, July Ist, he was sitting on the scat in the park opposite the White House, when he saw the President come out alone ; he followed him down the Avenue to Fifteenth street, and then kept on the opposite side of the street up Fifteenth, until the President entered the residence of Secretary Blaine. lie waited at the corner The Methodists * MEET IN COUNCIL IN ELBERTON, AND HAVE A GOOD TIME. The town of Elberton was considerably enlivened last week by the conference of the Methodists of the Elberton District. The opening sermon was preached last Wednesday night by Rev. W. D. Anderson, the presiding elder. The conference was called to order Thurs day morning by the presiding elder, and Capt. J. F. Craft, of the Hartwell circuit, made clerk of the body, with Dr. B. A. Henry, of the Bethlehem circuit, an assistant clerk. Upon a call the following delegates re sponed: Bethlehem Circuit.—Rev. A. G. Worley J. N. Wall, G. E. Heard, 15. A. Ilcnry, M.J. Thornton, A. L. Rayle, J. A. Clark, J. W* McCalla, H. P. Mattox. Carnesville Circuit.—Rev. S. Leak, L. D. Sewell, J. S. Latner, W. J. Morgan, John Bagwell, M. A. Herndon, J. L. King. Clarksville Circuit.—Rev. W. W. Lampkin, A. 11. McAllister. Danielsville Circuit.—C. B. Henry, J. 11. White. J. F. Payne. Elbert Circuit.—llev. W. T. Norman, J. A. Harper, W. J. Evinson, I*. A. Wilhite, A. G. Tynch, M. B. Adams, W. M. Adams, E. B. Higginbotham. Franklin Springs Circuit. —Rev. E. T. Hendrick, D. D. Dickerson, L. N. Cunning ham, Jas. J. Bond, Pk 11. Agnew, C. N. Osborne. Harmony Grove Circuit.—Rev. J. T. Curtis. Hartwell Circuit.—Rev. W. A. P"arris, J. C. Dickerson, J. E. Teasley, J. P\ Craft, E. Chapman, F. B. Hodges. Homer Circuit.—W. B. Neal, T. B. Mize, J. 11. Gunnels. Jefferson Circuit.—Rev. R. A. Seal, J. W. Glenn. Lavonia Mission.—Rev. J. 11. Grogan, G. W. Sewell, Pk’chbcrger. Eibcrton.—Rev. J. 11. Baxter, W. A. Swift, W. M. Shumate, J. H. Jones, W. C. Prcssle} 7 , T. R. Adams. Without any delay the business of the con ference was proceeded with. The reports from the various circuits were of a very encouraging character, showing an increase in membership and a generally favor able spiritual condition. In the matter of infant baptism as an ordinance of the church, it would appear that there was not that interest taken in it by parents which its character requires. There was also a lack of interest shown in the class meetings, if wo judge by the reports m ade. Asa rule the Saturday meetings are poorly attended, and counsel was taken as to hew the interest in these meetings could be revived. Punctuality on the part of the minister, coupled with earnestness in the work, was thought to be a necessity. Rev. W. P. Lovejoy, financial agent of Emory College, during the conference, made an appeal for help for that institution, which was liberally responded to, about S2OO being given to help relieve the college from debt. Mr. Lovejoy is an able gentleman and well up in theology, as all will bear us out who heard his sermon Sunday morning at the Presbyterian church. The conference was, according to the verdict of the delegates in attendance, one of the most pleasant in the history of district con ferences, and all the delegates loft with re newed determination to consecrate their energies to the cause of the Master. The closing scenes of the conference, on Saturday, were of the most delightful character partaking more of the character of a love feast than a conference. Every one came away from the church with a feeling that the Holy Spirit has been unmistakably manifest ed. The business of the body closed Saturday evening with the selection of the place for the next conference (Wood’s Camp Ground, Jackson county), and the appointing of delegates to the Annual Conference, as fol lows: Rev. L. W. Sewell, A. 11. McAllister, J. W. Glenn, J. F. Craft. Alternates, iicv. J. N. Wall, J. 11. Jones. The session of the district conference at Elbcrton was a source of congratulation to the people of tho town, and we hope the elfects will be visible for a long time to come.— Elberton Gazette and News. A Sad Experience. lie was on his way home from Leadvillc. He had on a ragged old summer suit, and he had been taking his meals about thirty hours apart to make his money carry him through. “ Yes, I like the country out that way,” he replied to the query. “ The climate is good, the scenery fine, and some of the people as honest as need be. The trouble is to know how to take the had ones.” “ I should think that would be easy,” was the reply. “ Yes, it looks that way, but I had a little experience. lam the original diskiverer of the richest mine around Lcadville.” “Is that so.” “ Yes sir, I am the very man, though you wouldn’t think it to see my old clothes.” “ Then you don’t own it now ?” “ Not a bit of it. I’ll explain : I was poking around on the hills for signs. I collected some specimens for assay, staked out a claim and went to tiie assayers. It was two days before he let me know it was the richest o:e he had ever seen, and then I hurried back to my claim. Hang my buttons if it hadn’t been jumped.” “ How ?” “ Why, a gang of sharpers iiad found the spec and built a pole shanty and liung out a sign of ‘ P’irst Baptist Church’ over the door. Sure as shootin’ they had, and the law out there is that no miner can sink a shaft within two hundred feet of a church building. They saw me coming, and when I got there they were actually holding a revival. There were just six of them, and they got up one after another and told how wicked they had been and how sorry they were, and, would you believe it, they had the check to ask me to lead the singing. I went to law but they beat me. Three days after the verdict the ‘First Baptist Clinch’ burned down, and before the ashes were cold the congregation were develop ing a mine worth over a million of dollars. You see, I didn’t know how to take them.” “Was there any particular way of taking them ?” “ You bet there was. I ought to have opened on that revival with a Winchester rille and given the coroner SSO for a verdict that they died of too much religion.” Keep the Life Pure. Once upon a time an Arabian princess was presented by her teacher with a ivory casket, exquisitely wrought, with the instruction not to open it until a year had rolled around. Many were the speculations as to what it con tained, and the time impatiently waited for when the jeweled key should disclose the mysterious contents. It came at last, and the maiden went alone and with, trembling haste unlocked the treasure ; and lo ! reposing on delicate satin linings, lay nothing but a shroud of rust; the form of something beautiful could be discerned, but the beauty had gone forever. Tearful with disappointment, she did not at first see a slip of parchment con taining these words : “ Dear pupil: May you learn from this a lesson for y'our life. This trinket, when in closed, had upon it a single spot of rust; by neglect it lias become the useless thing you now behold, only a blot on its pure surround ings. So a little stain on your character will, by inattention and neglect, mar a bright and useful life, and in time will leave only the dark record of what might have been. Ifyou now place within a jewel of gold, and after many years seek the result, you will find it still as sparkling as ever. So with yourself; treasure up only the pure and good, and you will ever he an ornament to society and a source of true pleasure to yourself and -your friends.” S TERMS, $1.50 PER ANNUM. ) SI.OO for Six Months. AY Before Mrs. Patton died, at lOvansville, Ind., she induced her husband and her daugh ter, by a previous union, to promise to marry, and the arrangement is to be carried out. A Mr. Anthon. alleged to be an American,- lias been amazing Rome by violin plaj’ing with his toes, in the absence of any fingers. He also wipes his face with a toe held hand kerchief. A Wisconsin wife's suit for divorce de pends upon evidence which she procured by putting l'rcsli paint on the soles of her hus band’s boots, thereby marking his footsteps when he ought to have been abed at home.* Four more cases of lockjaw, resulting from wounds from toy pistols, are reported in Bal timore, making seventeen in all as a conse quence of the Fourth of July. Three of the new cases have proved fatal; tho fourth is not cx'pectcd to recover. A Chinese mother at Fresno, Oregon, ban daged her little girl’s feet, after the fashion of her country, and for several days the cues of the sufferer were heard throughout tho mining town. Then a mob of indignant miners broke into the house, cut off the ban dages, soaked the feet in liniment, and threat ened to hang the Woman if she renewed the process. It would not be possible for an experienced raiser of thoroughbred stock, whatever might • he his nationality, to visit the blue-grass re gion of Kentucky and the adjoining States of, Tennessee and Virginia without at once ad mitting that soil, air, water and climate there combine to contribute all that is most ncccs. sary for the production of a perfect type of.', race horse. The Rev. W. W. Colley, recently a mis-, sionarj' in Africa, lias distinguished himself at Norwich, Conn., by declaring in,a .lectucr that there was no barren Sahara, and that the ~ whole country known on the .maps, as stcrilo . and uninhabitable was fertile and densely • populated. The wily Arabs started the lie,. be explained, in order to keep out. ; compcti- . tiou in the ivory traltic. At Argosloli, or Cephnlonin, where Lord Duil’erin lately tom-bed on bis way to Con stantinople, is a mill, worked by a stream a Mowing from the sea. An Knglishman dis covered that the water always ran one way, and built a mill which has inado his fortune. He tried hard to find where the water, which , disappears into the earth, ultimately went, and, among other experiments with that end,j poured oil on its surface, but its course re mains a mystery. The Royal Spanish Academy, named, ro-. ccntlj’, Archbishop Trench, James Russell i Lowell and Lord Haughton as judges for the . Calderon prize. The judges reported that .. they did not feel justified in awarding the . prize to any of the competitors, whereupon , one of the competitors forwarded his rejected address to the Spanish Academy, in Madrid. The Academy’ forthwith testified its approba tion of the poem and awarded its groat medal to the author, Mr. R. 11. Horne. At Lasell Seminary for girjs, at Auburn*., dale, Mass., an excellent sy-stem of self-go-., vernment is practiced. Any student who at the end of one term is regarded as worthy of such trust, is enrolled on the list of “ self-, governed,” and thenceforward docs as sho pleases so long as she continues to show her self entitled to unlimited confidence. This is the highest honor the school lias to bestow —a recognition of real trustworthiness of character. It is stated that this system has proved to be successful. British India supports a population of 243 • persons to the square mile, against 180 in,, France and 200 in England. Wherever the > population exceeds 200 to the square mile it ceases to be rural, and has to live to a greator or less extent by manufactures, mining, or city industries. Keeping .in view that ninety per cent, of the rural population of India live . more or less by the tillage of the soil, it is easy to understand that, owing to the extreme, density of population, the struggle for ex istence is extremely hard. Mary Clevcnstien, aged 15, was walking quietly upon the track of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, near Pottsville, on Satur day, carrying on her arm a basket of crockery. So wrapped in thought was she that she heeded not the approach of a train behind her, and was struck and thrown into the air as high as the smokestack of the engine. When tho train hands went back to pick up t he remaina she asked, “ What's the matter?” The next day she was at work as usual. Of the crockery in the basket which she carried on her arm, one plate only was broken. The Americans are carrying everything before them on the other side on turf, field and farm. They have now become, to use the English slang, “ all the cheese.” Tho silver medal for the best cheese at the Bir mingham show lias been borne away by Mr. Jubal Webb, who has been styled “Tho Cheese Fiend,” in consequence of his inde fatigable exertions in procuring tho best cheeses to be had in America. The one which obtained the prize is pronounced tho largest cheese ever made, weighing three quarters of a ton, and came from lowa. Senator Garland of Arkansas was appealed to by Forest and Stream for directions how to, cook a’possum. “The bent of my mind," he replied, “is that if you would boil the ’possum in salt and red pepper water until ho is quite tender, and then brown him well in an old-fashioned oven, or skillet, wherein around his body a goodly number of potatoes are baked and browned, you would have a dish unrivalled and more than Oriental, and a person who could not relish it, whether he took the 'possum hot or cold, would have no celestial fire in his soul, nor music either." As to whether a ’possum is best eaten hot or cold, the Senator confessed inability to decide. “ Rather than miss him entirely,” he added. “ I would try to cat him in any way I could find him, and really lain of opinion that he is better hot or cold, according to the state ho is in when I last partake of him.” NUMBER 25,